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Volume 15 Issue 1 - January 2012
| Colour Key: | |
| NICE or Department of Health guideline | |
| SIGN guideline | |
| Independent professional body guideline | |
| Working party guideline | |
| Other articles |

| Editorial | |
| Are you ready for your appraisal and revalidation? | |
| News | |
| NICE releases updated guideline on management of epilepsy | |
| Guideline on diagnosis and management of colorectal cancer updated by SIGN | |
| Updated Guideline | |
| NICE updates its ACD algorithm on antihypertensive drugs | |
| Dr Terry McCormack describes how the updated NICE guideline recommends the use of ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring for diagnosis of hypertension | |
| New Guideline | |
| A multidisciplinary team is vital in the care of hip fracture patients | |
| Patients should be offered a formal, acute orthogeriatric or orthopaedic ward-based Hip Fracture Programme, in line with NICE recommendations, says Dr Sally Hope | |
| NICE Quality Standards | |
| People with CKD have a higher risk of cardiovascular events | |
| Dr Ivan Benett explains how implementing the NICE quality standard on chronic kidney disease will help to reduce the number of individuals needing dialysis or renal replacement | |
| Hot Topic | |
| The Medical Appraisal Guide will help GPs prepare for revalidation | |
| Dr Honor Merriman, GP and CPD tutor in Oxfordshire, discusses new advice that sets out what GPs need for revalidation and what steps they can take now | |
| Out of Hours | |
| Cosmetic surgery isn't necessary if you're healthy | |
| Dr Phil Hammond, broadcaster and sessional GP in Bristol | |

